In rural houses of traditional type, ceilings are often quite low. In old urban and suburban houses, on the contrary, too high, and the rooms are also closely tight. These disadvantages can be smooth using the appropriate paint or suspended ceiling.
A low room can visually appear much higher if you take and paint it in a white or any other light tone.
In order to visually reduce the height of the room, on the contrary, the walls are painted with light paint the ceiling with a darker and bright.
However, much more interesting is another solution this device of the suspended ceiling. To make it installation most often use caisson floors. Separate squares of the frames below are attached with screws to the supporting frame structure. The simplest shape of the suspended ceiling is considered stretched cords.
More to reduce the height of the ceiling, you can build a mezzanine. Then it will turn out not only to achieve that the height will become less, but you also have an additional container for storing domestic things. This design will look especially good in the corridor. The mezzanine should have a good appearance, and not look like a suspended structure, which is lined with boards.